S ummary . One forced‐choice test of academic motivation and two Likert‐type tests were developed and their validity assessed. One of the Likert tests appeared to possess little validity, for several possible reasons. But the forced‐choice test and a Likert test constructed from the same materials (sentences) and administered to comparable groups under comparable conditions appeared to be about equally valid, as judged by significant relations with teacher ratings and stream level of the pupil.
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Claude E. Buxton (1966) studied this question.